On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Quizzes

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer Quiz

1 "Much have I travell'd in the realms of ________"
gold

treasure

royalty

silver
2 George Chapman was NOT known for writing _________
novels

poems

plays

translations
3 "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer" is what kind of poem?
a sestina

a quatrain

a series of heroic couplets

a sonnet
4 Which line is best identified as the poem's volta?
"Yet did I never breathe its pure serene"

"Silent, upon a peak in Darien."

"Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:"

"Then I felt like some watcher of the skies"
5 Keats is associated with which literary era?
Elizabethean

Gothic

Romanticism

Victorian
6 Apollo is the Greek god of ______
love

war

death

poetry
7 A Petrarchan sonnet's structure traditionally comprises _____
an octave and a sestet

four quatrains and a couplet

seven couplets

fourteen blank verse lines
8 In line 3, "in fealty to" means
to be in debt to

to be loyal to

in fear of

in the service of
9 Cortez is ______
a king

a poet

an astronomer

an explorer
10 In line 10, the meaning of "ken" is closest to
orbit

sight

knowledge

lens
11 Homer's epics were originally composed in what language?
Greek

English

Italian

Latin
12 Which is NOT a theme of the poem?
vision

love

imagination

discovery
13 Which of Keats' friends introduced him to Chapman's translations?
Fanny Brawne

Percy Shelley

Charles Clowden Clarke

Joseph Severn
14 Chapman speaks "out loud and ______"
softly

meek

bold

proud
15 Keats had probably read which poet's translation of Homer before encountering Chapman?
Percy Shelley

Samuel Johnson

Alexander Pope

Ben Jonson
16 Cortez was known for exploring which area of the "New World?"
Canada

Central America

the West Indies

New England
17 In addition to Homer, Keats was most influenced by which poet in his own attempts at epic poetry?
Ben Jonson

William Wordsworth

John Milton

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
18 Before resolving to write poetry, Keats trained to become ______
a ship captain

a teacher

a doctor

a debt collector
19 Which feature of sonnets best characterizes the genre?
iambic pentameter

the poem's length

the rhyme scheme

the volta
20 Which word would NOT be used to describe the poem's speaker?
ambitious

imaginative

awestruck

complacent
21 Which action does NOT reoccur in the poem?
seeing

swimming

hearing

watching
22 Which of Keats well-known poems was the young poet's unfinished epic?
To Autumn

Endymion

Hyperion

Eve of St. Agnes
23 Keats frequently turned to _________ for inspiration
Greek myth

his literary friends

the sublime

English history
24 The poem ends with _____
silence

defeat

celebration

war
25 Where are Cortez's men at the end of the poem?
a mountain's peak

at sea

in the city

in a village

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